Bob Stanley: Bowie and my top 10 sextogenarian tracks

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David Bowie’s surprising re-emergence — doubly surprising as Where
Are We Now? is such a beautiful, reflective, A-grade song — has shown
that musicians over 60 can still create work to match the peaks of their
younger years. In theory you would think that the weight of experience, not
to mention all the hours of book-reading and film-watching available to
ageing, wealthy rock stars, would mean such late flowering would happen more
often. But the big names of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties weren’t
encouraged to act their age — witness those who still hide their crows’ feet
behind wraparound shades rather than